A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of Surrey.
Locations
A, B Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Alfold Alfold MillLaker's Green MillTickner's Heath MillRobbin's MillDunsfold Mill Smock 1871 1841 Probably built after 1813. Mill Field marked on 1841 Tithe map, first mention of a miller in 1845 Six Home Counties Directory. Working until c. 1870. Demolished c. 1913. Ash Post 1332 The Abbot of Chertsey ordered a new windmill to be built at Ash in 1332. Banstead Hundred Acres Mill Post 1816 1505 Field names in the C16th indicate the possibility of an earlier mill. Demolished c. 1877. Belmont The Folly Mill Smock 1823 1823 Markeds as a folly on 1823 map. Windmill may have been erected post-1840. Demolished c. 1890 . Birtley Birtley Mill 1834 Built to pump water into the Wey and Arun Canal. Demolished in 1853 . Blackheath Tangley Way, Blackheath, near GuildfordSmock After 1923Designed by E Lancaster Burns for generating electricity. Out of use by the 1970s. Bletchingley Cox Hill Mill Moved to Ifield, Sussex c. 1870 Buckland Buckland Windmill Smock A saw mill, built in 1860s or 1870s. Restored 1995-2003.
C Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Capel Clark's Green Mill Post 17331749176217771789 1649 Marked on a map of the manor of Dorking dated 1649. Demolished in 1774. Capel Shiremark Mill Smock 1774 Incorporated timbers from Clark's Green Mill. Working until c.1919. Burnt down 1970. Carshalton 1816 1816 Marked on the 1" to a mile Ordnance Survey map, 1816 . Caterham Demolished before 1736. Caterham Caterham Common Mill Post 169617621793 Standing in 1795. Probably gone by 1838, possibly demolished c. 1851. Charlwood Stanhill Mill Blown down 13 January 1703. Charlwood Little Park Farm Mill Blown down 13 January 1703. Charlwood Norwood Hill Mill 17291750 1729 1750 Charlwood Charlwood Common Mill Post 1762 1762 1762 Charlwood Charlwood Common Mill Smock 1804 Burnt down February 1901. The base survived and was house converted in 1934. Charlwood Lowfield Heath Mill Post Mill 1989 Windmill World Chelsham Chelsham Mill Post 176217701823 1762 Burnt down c. 1840. Chiddingfold 17621789 1760 Stood north east of Chiddingfold Church. Chiddingfold Hungry Corner Mill Post 1668 Demolished c.1813. Chiddingfold Hungry Corner Mill Smock 18231871 1813 Cap blown off c. 1874, demolished c. 1876. Base survives, used as a store. Chipstead Mugswell Mill 1790 1772 1790 Chipstead Mugswell Mill Post 1816 Working until c. 1895. Demolished c. 1912. Roundhouse survives. Cobham Fairmile Mill 18161823 c. 1805 Built c. 1805. Demolished in the 1850s. Cranleigh Windmill Field Gone by 1843. Cranleigh Cranleigh Common Mill Tower 1753 1703 Replaced by smock mill c. 1800. Cranleigh Cranleigh Common MillKillick's Mill Smock c. 1800 Demolished in February 1917. Cranleigh Cranley Mill 1833 A pumping windmill, supplied water for the Wey and Arun Canal. Demolished in 1853.
D, E Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Dorking Popper MillPupper Mill 17291749 1729 1749 Epsom Wells early mill 15th century 15th century Epsom Wells Post 18231871 1796 Burnt down c. 1880 Ewell Tower 18161853 1801 Demolished c. 1900 Ewhurst Hurt Wood Mill Post 17331749 1648 Standing in 1847, blown down c. 1854 Ewhurst Hurt Wood Mill Tower 1871 1855 Windmill World
F, G, H Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Fetcham Cheshire Mill Tower 1789 1777 1804 Frimley early mill 1537 1537 Frimley Frimley Green Mill Tower 1816 1784 Windmill World Godstone Tilburstow Hill Mill Post 1762177717901871 1760 Collapsed 1805 Godstone Godstone Green Mill Post 18161871 c. 1810 Demolished late 1880s Haslemere Grayswood Hill MillOliver's Mill Smock 1871 1785 Demolished August 1886 Holmwood Holmwood Mill 1762 Holmwood Holmwood Mill Post 1816 1775 Demolished c. 1880 Hookwood Hookwood Mill Post 18231866 c. 1820 Demolished 1896 Horley Horley mill Post 17621777178918161871 1762 Demolished c. 1900 Horne Horne Mill 1823 1823 Standing in 1845, gone by 1851 Horsell Saw mill Post mill 1890 c. 1910
K, L Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Kingston upon Thames Kingston Mill 17001733 1700 1733 Leigh Shellwood Common Mill 1729175017621789 1729 1789, later burnt down, gone by 1795 Leigh Shellwood Common Mill Post 18161823 1795 Standing in 1915, gone by 1925 Limpsfield Chart Post 1816 Demolished February 1925 Long Ditton 1762 1762 1762
M, N Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Merstham Post 1789181618231871 1786 Demolished 7 October 1896 Mitcham Mitcham Common Mill Post 1806 Demolished 1906 Mitcham Horizontal Nutfield Post mill 1296 1296 Nutfield Botterys Mill Post 1680 Demolished December 1929
O, R Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Ockley Emler MillAlmer's Mill Smock 1823 1803 Collapsed 23 November 1944Windmill World OckleySmockReplica for residential use.Windmill World Outwood Outwood Mill Post 1665 Windmill World Outwood Outwood High Mill Smock 1796 Collapsed 25 November 1960 Reigate Oatmill 1800 1800 Reigate Blackborough Mill 170017291733 1700 1733, replaced by later post mill on same site Reigate Blackborough Mill,Blackberry Mill,Ganders Hatch Mill Post 1736 Demolished 1938 Reigate Cockshot Hill Mill 1628 Collapsed by 1639 Reigate Cockshot Hill Mill Post 1729 1729 Standing in 1826, gone by 1845 Reigate Cockshot Hill Mill There were two mills on Cockshot Hill Post 1748 Demolished c. 1893 Reigate Reigate Heath Mill Post 17531762 1753 Windmill World Reigate Trumpet's Hill Mill Smock 1789181618231871 Built 1760s Demolished 4 October 1950 Reigate Wray Common Mill Tower 1824 Windmill World
S Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Shepperton Upper Halliford 14th century 14th century Shepperton Halliford 1382 1399 Shepperton Walton BridgeApproximately 1597 1597 South Beddington Smock 1835 Burnt down 1852 Sunbury on Thames 1311 1311 Sunbury on Thames 1591 1603 Sunbury on Thames 1683 Burnt down c. 1705 Sunbury on Thames 1712 1722 Sunbury on Thames Smock 1819 Demolished 1900s
T, W Location Name of mill andgrid reference Type Maps First mentionor built Last mention or demise Photograph Tadworth Post 1295 1295 Tadworth Post 1600 1775 Tadworth New Mill Post 1780 Windmill World Tadworth Post 1795 Demolished 1890 Walton-on-Thames 18th centuryor earlier Walton-on-Thames 1765 1765 1820 Warlingham Succombs Hill Post 1198 1325 Warlingham Ashby's Mill Smock 1865 Burnt down 24 April 1865 Warlingham Farleigh Mill West Horsley Windmill Hill Mill Tower 17291753176217771790 1729 Demolished 1866 Weybridge Conduit Hill Tower 1847 1847 Windlesham Post
Locations formerly in Surrey
For windmills in Addington, Barnes, Battersea, Bermondsey, Brixton, Camberwell, Camerwell, Clapham, Coulsdon, Croydon, Dulwich, Kew, Lambeth, Newington, Norwood, Richmond, Rotherhithe, Shirley, Southwark, Streatham, Surbiton, Wandsworth and Wimbledon see List of windmills in Greater London. For windmills in Lowfield Heath see List of windmills in West Sussex.
Notes
Unless otherwise indicated, the reference for all entries is:-
Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.
Maps
The maps quoted by date are:-
1594 – John Norden 1604 – Charles Whitewell 1610 - John Speed 1635 – Moses Glover 1658 - William Faithorne 1719 - Dr Harris 1729 – John Sennex 1733 – John Seller 1746 – John Rocque 1750 - Bowen 1753 – Emanuel Bowen 1762 – John Rocque 1777 – Andrews and Dury 1789 – Lindley and Crosley 1800 – Laurie and Whittle 1816- Ordnance Survey 1820 – Ordnance Survey 1823 - Bryant 1833 – Bryant and/or Greenwood 1850 – C Knight 1863 – Ordnance Survey 1871 - Ordnance Survey
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